Honestly, what has gone wrong with the human mind? Every single debate I track these days is binary, usually supporting some political idiot or another. The latest outbreak of conflict is a result of the actions the US has taken against Venezuela. On one side of the debate, Trump cheerleaders are arguing that Maduro was
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Below is another excellent post from MB reader Erin Rolandsen, CEO of Angelassist and author of beyondtheragemachine.substack.com: High levels of short-term immigration have made official population measures unfit for purpose. Australia’s population statistics were designed for a low-churn world, where most migrants arrived permanently and most residents stayed put. That is no longer the economy
DXY is getting Trumped as we enter 2026. AUD is still trending higher. But it is paced by a slow-moving CNY. Gold appears tired. Oil has died. Base metals are all AI all of the time. Big miners whoa. EM stocks are throwing NY party. Junk ain’t. Duration is a threat. With US stocks in
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With the release of the latest ABS Wage Price Index for the September quarter, it was revealed that headline wages were growing right on analyst and RBA expectations, with wages up 0.8% quarter on quarter and 3.4% year on year. But underneath the relatively pedestrian headlines lies a divergence in outcomes and significant falls in
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As usual, Australia is having a stupid debate. This time, it is about manufacturing. Australia is ranked below Botswana and Russia on Harvard’s index of economic complexity because of a diminished manufacturing industry and an overreliance on iron ore and coal exports. However, economists said the statistics could not be used to justify Labor’s industry
In the United States, the median American is 39 years of age and is at the average part of a cohort that is seeing at best stagnating outcomes, at worst deteriorating ones. In 2002, the median age of a first-time home buyer was 31, with the median age of a repeat home buyer being 41.
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It seems nothing can bring sense to the iron ore market as the jaws widen further. Scuttlebutt explains the seasonality. Chinese iron ore prices are being underpinned by steelmakers restocking ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday in February, while tight domestic supplies are also lending further support. The outlook beyond this point is hardly
A near two year low in the US ISM manufacturing print saw the USD take a dive while other risk markets repositioned after the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela with oil stocks lifting amid a small bid in Brent and WTI markers. Wall Street was outpaced by European and Japanese stocks while Pound Sterling and
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The successful seizure and removal of President Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela demonstrates Washington’s readiness to use every means at its disposal — including military power — to stave off any diminishment of U.S. national influence in its bid to manage the dissolution of the celebrated postwar, liberal order.
Coal and gas have finally been eclipsed by renewable energy as wind and solar tip in half the power to Australia’s electricity grid. Stephanie Tran reports an historic event.
Australia’s electricity grid has reached an historic milestone, with renewables supplying almost half of all power across the national electricity market in the final quarter of 2025 and exceeding 50% in Western Australia for the first time.
Amid calls for Royal Commission, a narrative emerges of the perpetrators, their links to ISIS, and warnings ignored by police and ASIO. Human rights advocate Al the Writer reports (Part 1).
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro will emerge as an enduring political symbol similar to Simon Bolivar, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara, secretary of the Decolonial International Network Foundation, Sandew Hira, has told RT.
Since Australia reopened its international borders in February 2022, following almost two years of COVID-driven restrictions, migration to Australia has surged. Just a few weeks later, in March 2022, the Treasury released its net overseas migration forecast for 2021-22, projecting 41,000. With only four months left in the year, one might expect that the Treasury’s
How Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson turned a metaphor into a reality.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2025
I asked Grumblr, the local AI bot
What is democracy what’s it not
Democracy is about Sharing
With Fairness and Justice
The machine pointed out smiling
Sharing demands Peace
Peace needs Respect see
Respect fosters Decency
Honest decency is hard
Because you know nothing
And I'm a lazy bastard
‘Cuz I can fudge everything